Political geography.

The Cordoba House site is “at” Ground Zero in the sense that it is within two blocks or so of Ground Zero. I am therefore licensed to tell you that when I lived in New York, I lived at 145 Central Park West. Damn, Bono was an annoying neighbor.

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Evidently the people who get exercised about the placement of Cordoba House (as was) are the kind who never had occasion to learn that in dense cities, two blocks is a long way. Even in San Francisco, it makes a big difference if your house on, say, 10th Avenue is by Lake Street or Clement….